- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Knowledge
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
- Friendship
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
- Okay
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.
- Famous
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've got no desire to be famous myself.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I started working from home, I made a promise to myself to go out at least once a day.
- Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'
- Eating
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Taking a risk is always frightening, but I gave myself a set period of time and had enough money to see me through. I operated from the belief that things would be okay, that if I wasn't successful I would find myself a job, but either way, I would be fine.
- I Am
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As a first generation American myself, I know that comprehensive immigration reform is good for our country. I know it will reduce our deficit, grow our economy, reaffirm our values, advance our ideals, and honor our history as a nation of immigrants.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020